Re: way to make it work to install abiword

From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 01:42:58 EDT

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    On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 02:52, Shu Gilbert Nakamura wrote:
    >
    >
    > Hello
    >
    > I was just trying to install the latest AbiWord
    > abiword-gnome-bidi-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm since I needed to write in Japanese.
    > Besides, the currently installed abiword-0.7.14-7 in my Red Hat Linux
    > 7.2 has
    > recently had a strange tendency of starting automatically at every boot
    > time although I did
    > not set up anything related to this; so I wanted to replace it with the
    > latest, expecting that the installation would be a piece of cake even
    > for persons
    > with little knowledge of computer science. But I got the complaint:
    >
    > [root@localhost AbiWord]# rpm -Uvh abiword-gnome-bidi-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm
    > error: failed dependencies:
    > abiword-fonts is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1
    > libgal.so.19 is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1
    >
    > And I could not find these abiword-fonts and libgal.so.19 but
    > libgal19-0.19-2.i386.rpm
    > as the closest one to libgal.so.19. The installation of this package has
    > been
    > also incomplete:
    >
    > [root@localhost RHL]# rpm -Uvh libgal19-0.19-2.i386.rpm
    > error: failed dependencies:
    > gal >= 0.19 is needed by libgal19-0.19-2
    >
    > This sequence of dependency, even if I could handle, seems going on and
    > on forever.
    > So my conclusion is that I have been doing something wrong because the
    > installation of
    > AbiWord should not be that complicated. Would anyone please tell me what
    > I am missing
    > here?
    >
    > Regards,
    > Gilbert
    >
    >
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